Team Leader Operations Quality

About the role

LEONI is seeking a Team Leader for Operations Quality to drive excellence across its automotive wiring systems business. You will lead a dedicated quality unit, ensuring compliance, continuous improvement, and safe product delivery in a fast‑moving manufacturing environment.

Key responsibilities

• Manage and supervise the Operations Quality team according to defined objectives and KPIs.
• Identify improvement opportunities, provide consulting, and enhance service delivery.
• Ensure adherence to standards, governance, and process execution.
• Lead direct reports, set clear objectives, monitor performance, and evaluate results.
• Plan team activities to cover all production stages and respond to internal requests.
• Identify training needs, support professional development, and promote knowledge transfer.
• Implement measures to boost team performance, flexibility, diversity, succession planning, coaching, and change management.
• Hold functional accountability for Operations Quality at the segment level.
• Exercise authority to stop production or shipment when non‑compliant processes or products are detected.
• Activate Q‑Task‑Force support for major quality issues and act as Product Safety Officer for regulated products.

Required profile

• University degree in a relevant field.
• Fluency in German, English and French.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in quality management.
• Strong communication, social and intercultural sensitivity.
• Proven change‑management capabilities.
• Target‑oriented, resilient, self‑organized and able to manage conflicts.
• Team‑player with a collaborative mindset.

Required skills